Show I AN EXPENSIVE PET PETs PETa a s J tho the City Justified In Paying Such Sueh I Enormous Board Bourd Bo rd and Keep Every Evem citizen of or New lew York par particularly every direct taxpayer should rend mos carefully the speeches of ot II Jt Ins and Edgar Ed ar J Levey L vey on the expenditures of ot the city of ot Now New w York If Ir liter after perusing those tho c speeches he hc has any doubt that lint time tho I question of or setting our house bouse bou e In order Is urgent then themi It Is difficult to see sea what cnn can convince him outride of or the actual lon of payment by the municipal treasury It has taken tolen us ten years to find dud out how little we wc know about running a n city But nut yet et short us the time Is the result has ho been reached gradually We e have passed from one unwarrantable able ablo expenditure ex to another until we have havo placed In a position where there is practically no demand which we can cnn logically refuse As AsSir Mr Sir Levey Leey pointed out ont the loss on the Staten ten Island ferry annually le Is OOOO and this IB Is almost exactly the taxation paid by Staten Island to toward toward i iward ward the administration of or the tho city II It now receives therefore Ita police lighting water roads und and administration I I tion generally for tor nothing and amid is in a n position to make mako a n demand for a n free ferry ferr on the theory that anybody can enn walk over ocr the Brooklyn bridge e for nothing It takes men to run one I I of time the Staten Island ferryboats tom foi hours against eighteen men on a n Lackawanna or a n vanla vania boat bont We Ve simply cannot afford it We Wo are taxed up imp to the limit As Aa AsIr Mr Ir Levey T ncy says manufacturers arc ure moving out beyond the city limits bo ho cause of taxation Ultimately Ultima ely rents will come down In consequence Large e districts will deteriorate and their tax taxable taxable able value nIne will be lowered Our enormous expenditure and our enormous debt lebL presumably contracted to help the city is JEI hurting It We aro arc doing much which Individual effort and pride should do a great deal bet better better better ter and ancl Incidentally we are sapping the self Belt reliance of ol our people In n a away way that would cause causo our grandfathers to turn in their graves gra Wall Street Streel Journal |